Philipsburg

Philipsburg is the capital of "Dutch Side" Sint Maarten on the island of in the sea. It is a busy port for cruise ships and one of the Caribbean's best shopping spots.
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  • Type: Town with 1,300 residents
  • Description: capital city of Sint Maarten
  • Also known as: “Filipsburg”, “Great Bay”, “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”, “Філіпсбург (Сінт-Мартэн)”, “ฟีลิปส์บืร์ค”, “フィリップスバーグ”, “フィリップスブルク”, and “フィリップスブルグ”
Photo: Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: St. Martin of Tours‘ Church and Philipsburg Methodist Church.

Church
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The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious…

Church
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Peak
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is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marigot and Lower Prince’s Quarter.

Town
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Saint Martin is an island in the Caribbean that… is situated 6 km northwest of Philipsburg.

Village
Lower Prince's Quarter is a town in , in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Suburb
Photo: Remy Gumbs (shady P), CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 4 km northwest of Philipsburg.

Philipsburg

Latitude
18.0251° or 18° 1′ 30″ north
Longitude
-63.0483° or 63° 2′ 54″ west
Population
1,300
UN/LOCODE
SX PHI
Open location code
77CR2XG2+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265616624
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3513392
Wiki­data ID
Q30958
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Philipsburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Philipsburg”
  • Arabic: “فيليبسبورج”
  • Arabic: “فيليبسبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Philipsburg”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիլիպսբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Philipsburg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Filipsburq”
  • Belarusian: “Філіпсбург”
  • Bosnian: “Philipsburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Филипсбург”
  • Catalan: “Philipsburg”
  • Cebuano: “Philipsburg (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Philipsburg”
  • Chinese: “菲利普斯堡”
  • Croatian: “Philipsburg (Zemlja Sveti Martin)”
  • Croatian: “Philipsburg”
  • Czech: “Philipsburg”
  • Dutch: “Philipsburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيليبسبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Philipsburg”
  • Faroese: “Philipsburg”
  • Finnish: “Philipsburg”
  • French: “Philipsburg”
  • Galician: “Philipsburg”
  • Georgian: “ფილიპსბურგი”
  • German: “Philipsburg”
  • Greek: “Φίλιπσμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “פיליפסבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Philipsburg”
  • Icelandic: “Philipsburg”
  • Indonesian: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Indonesian: “Philipsburg”
  • Irish: “Philipsburg”
  • Italian: “Philipsburg”
  • Japanese: “フィリップスブルフ”
  • Kazakh: “Филипсбург (Синт-Мартен)”
  • Kazakh: “Филипсбург”
  • Korean: “필립스뷔르흐”
  • Latin: “Philippoburgum”
  • Latvian: “Filipsburga”
  • Lithuanian: “Filipsburgas”
  • Lombard: “Philipsburg”
  • Macedonian: “Филипсбург”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Philipsburg”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فيليپسبورڭ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Philipsburg”
  • Norwegian: “Philipsburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Philipsburg”
  • Ossetian: “Филипсбург (Синт-Мартен)”
  • Ossetian: “Филипсбург”
  • Papiamento: “Philipsburg”
  • Persian: “فیلیپسبورگ، سینت مارتن”
  • Piemontese: “Philipsburg”
  • Polish: “Philipsburg”
  • Portuguese: “Philipsburg”
  • Romanian: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Romanian: “Philipsburg”
  • Russian: “Филипсбург”
  • Sardinian: “Philipsburg (Sint Maarten)”
  • Sardinian: “Philipsburg”
  • Scots: “Philipsburg”
  • Serbian: “Филипсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Philipsburg”
  • Slovenian: “Philipsburg, Sveti Martin”
  • Slovenian: “Philipsburg”
  • Spanish: “Philipsburg”
  • Swedish: “Philipsburg”
  • Tamil: “பிலிப்சுபர்கு, சின்டு மார்தின்”
  • Tamil: “பிலிப்சுபர்கு”
  • Thai: “ฟิลิปส์บืร์ค”
  • Turkish: “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Turkish: “Philipsburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Філіпсбург”
  • Urdu: “فلپسبرگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Philipsburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Philipsburg, Sint Maarten”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Philipsburg”
  • Welsh: “Philipsburg”
  • Wu Chinese: “菲利普斯堡”
  • Zulu: “i-Philipsburg”

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